Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will not sell below cost of production. But if they use the code to fix extortionate prices. I should have to step in. . . ." Administrator Johnson hoped that industries would keep prices in the background "for at least 90 days" until the nation's purchasing power had gotten a head start on rising price levels...
Thus last week spoke a happy, happy President as he squiggled ''Franklin D. Roosevelt" at the bottom of the biggest piece of legislation he had gotten from an adjourning Congress. At the signing ceremony Senators and Representatives who had helped to whip the measure through just as the President wanted it beamed their pride and approval over the Roosevelt shoulder...
Then came the War. Authoress Jameson has never gotten over it. Her brother was killed, most of her friends. "In 1932, what lying, gaping mouth will say that it was worth while to kill my brother in his nineteenth year? You may say that the world's account is balanced by the item that we have with us still a number of elderly patriots, politicians, army contractors, women who obscenely presented white feathers. You will forgive me if, as courteously as is possible in the circumstances, I say that a field latrine is more use to humanity than these...
...whole truth of the matter is our menfolk have gotten into bad company. They want divorce and then remarry and then want the moon. The menfolk better wake up. I for one will teach my children to have no children. Just be selfish like their father...
...colleges and universities had by this week gotten their commencement announcements and invitations printed, their degrees engrossed and signed. There would be academic processions, speeches, sermons. Old grads would come trooping in with golf clubs, tennis rackets and bottles, many of them to put on rakish costumes, to talk of hard times, old times, babies. Eminent Men were ready to receive honorary degrees. The U. S. educational scene was in its most public and familiar phase. Last week one college was ready to celebrate with a difference...